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Civil War Soldiers - Fry

Fry, James B., brigadier-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Carrollton, Greene county, Ill., Feb. 22, 1827, was
graduated at West Point in 1847 and assigned to the 3d artillery. In
the same year he joined the army of Gen. Scott in the City of Mexico,
and the next year, with a detachment of artillery, made the voyage
around Cape Horn to take military possession of Oregon. He was
subsequently on frontier and garrison duty, assistant to Maj. George
H. Thomas at the military academy, and adjutant of the academy under
Col. R. E. Lee. Being promoted captain and made assistant
adjutant-general, March 16, 1861, he was chief of staff to Gen. Irwin
McDowell in that year, serving in the first battle of Bull Run, was
afterwards chief of staff to Gen. Don Carlos Buell, 1861-62, and took
part in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth, the movement to Louisville,
Ky., and the pursuit of Gen. Bragg. He was made
provost-marshal-general of the United States on March 17, 1863, given
the full rank of brigadier- general April 21, 1864, and was
successively brevetted lieutenant- colonel, colonel, brigadier-general
and major-general in the regular army for "faithful, meritorious and
distinguished services during the war." Before the abolition of the
office of provost-marshal- general, Aug. 30, 1866, Gen. Fry put in the
army 1,120,621 men, arrested 76,562 deserters, collected
$26,366,316.78, and made an exact enrolment of the national forces.
Gen. Fry was subsequently successively adjutant-general of the
Departments of the Pacific, the South, the Missouri and the Atlantic,
and was placed on the retired list June 1, 1881. He died at Newport,
R. I., July 11, 1894.

Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908

Fry, Speed S., brigadier-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Mercer county, now Boyle county, Ky., Sept. 9, 1817.
He began his college education at Centre college, but finished at
Wabash, where he was graduated in 1840, studied law, and in 1843 was
admitted to the bar. He organized a company for the 2nd Ky. volunteers
in 1846, commanded it during the Mexican war, and on his return to
Kentucky resumed his law practice and was, from 1857 to 1861, county
judge of Boyle county. At the beginning of the Civil war, he organized
the 4th Ky. infantry, became its colonel Oct. 9, 1861, and served
through- out the war, being mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1865.
He was brigadier-general of volunteers from March 21, 1862. After the
war, from 1869-72, Gen. Fry was supervisor of internal revenue in
Kentucky. He died in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 1, 1892.

Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908